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Purim

Purim

This is an archive of prayers and song written for the festival of Purim.

Purim is named after the word pur in Megillat Esther, the method of divination by lot used to determine the proper date for the Jews under the dominion of the Persian empire (circa 5th century BCE) to be murdered en masse (Esther 3:7). The lot is cast on the 13th of Nisan for the 13th of Adar and the decree to destroy the Jews is relayed posthaste (Esther 3:12). (Significantly, the 13th of Nisan is the eve of Pesaḥ when, according to Leviticus 23:5-6, the slaughter and consumption of the paschal lamb is indicated — a very auspicious date indeed.) Hijinx ensue.

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יום זה מכובד yom zeh mekhubad | יום שבתון yom shabbaton | כל מקדש שביעי kol meqadesh shevi'i | משתה Mishteh | פורים Purim | פיוטי אלהיכם piyyuṭei eloheikhem | שבעתא shiv'ata | תענית אסתר Fast of Esther | 86th Congress | 115th Congress | ABAB rhyming scheme | acrostic | phonetic alphabetic acrostic translation | עד דלא ידע ad d'lo yada | Alphabetic Acrostic | American Jewry of the United States | קמעות qame'ot (amulets) | Aramaic | Bene Israel | ברכת המזון birkat hamazon | blessings following the shema | British Commonwealth | British Jewry | British Monarchy | Byzantine Empire | Cairo Geniza | calendar announcements | childbirth | children's prayers | combating anti-Jewish oppression | Constitutional Monarchy | dragons | dreams | אל שמר El Shemor | English Translation | English vernacular prayer | Esther | food | Freedom | Great Britain | Haketía | הושענות hoshanot | hymns | Italian vernacular prayer | Izmir | Jewish-Christian relations | Jewish Women's Prayers | Judeo-Spanish | קרובות ḳerovot | Ladino Translation | Ladino vernacular prayer | למנציח Lamnatse'aḥ | Lawrence | liberty | Livorno | לוח lu'aḥ | מערבות maaravot | Marathi vernacular prayer | Massachusetts | Massachusetts Senate | meditation | מגילת אסתר Megillat Esther | mid-first millennium CE | מזמור Mizmor | Morocco | מוסר mussar | national anthems | Needing Attribution | Needing Vocalization | Ottoman Empire | Ottoman Jewry | parabiblical aggadah | parody | particularism and universalism | Philadelphia | פיוטים piyyuṭim | polemic | prayers for entertainers | prayers for pregnant women | Prayers of Guest Chaplains | pre-Ḥanukkah | pre-Purim | pregnancy | Problematic prayers | Prohibition in the United States | prophetic dreams | תהלים Psalms | Psalms 121 | Psalms 22 | Public Amidah | Purim parody | purimspiel | Queen Esther | Queen Victoria | Queens | resting meditation | rhyming translation | U.S. Senate | שבת זכור Shabbat Zakhor | Shushan Purim | South Carolina | תחינות teḥinot | Trees | unknowing | יציב פתגם Yetsiv Pitgam | זמירות zemirot | 11th century C.E. | 12th century C.E. | 19th century C.E. | 20th century C.E. | 21st century C.E. | 49th century A.M. | 50th century A.M. | 57th century A.M. | 58th century A.M.
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🆕 לַיְּהוּדִים אֲשֶׁר בְּשׁוּשָׁן | LaYhudim Asher biShushan — a shiv’ata cycle for musaf Shabbat Purim Meshulash, by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer